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All chapters of Foundations and Futures include lesson plans and curricular tools that are designed for high school students and grounded in ethnic studies pedagogy. Feel free to search our repository of primary sources and material that helps bring Asian American and Pacific Islander histories and experiences into the classroom.  

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    Joseph Tape Hunting

    Joseph Tape with his hunting rifle and bird dogs, circa 1880.

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    “What a Chinese Girl Did”

    An article profiling the “accomplishments” of the Tape Family featured in The Morning Call, circa 1892.

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    Gertrude Tape

    Portrait of Gertrude Ella Tape in the early 1890s.

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    Gertrude Tape and Friend

    Gertrude Tape (left) and an unidentified girl on Clay Avenue, behind the Chinese Presbyterian Church in San Francisco, 1894.

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    Russell Street House

    The Tape home at 2123 Russell Street, Berkeley, circa 1895. Photograph by Mary Tape.

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    Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape, 1890s

    Mary, Mamie, and Frank Tape in the 1890.

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    Frank Tape at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company

    Frank at his father’s office at the Pacific Mail Steamship Company wharf in the late 1890s.

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    Tape Family Postcard

    Mamie (right) with her children, Emily and Harold, and her sister, Emily, pose for a tourist postcard in Portland, circa 1912.

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    Herman and Emily Lowe

    Herman Lowe, Mamie’s husband, with their daughter, Emily, circa 1912.

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    Emily, Mary, Frank, and Gertrude

    Photo of Emily, Mary, Frank, and Gertrude in the early 1910s.

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    Chapter Overview: Fighting Anti-Asian Violence: Justice for Vincent Chin

    Helen Zia

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    Module 1: Who Was Vincent Chin?

    Helen Zia

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    Module 2: Economic Crises, the Politics of Blame, and 1980s Detroit

    Helen Zia

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    Module 3: To Do Something or Nothing: The Decision to Take Action

    Helen Zia

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    Module 4: Building a Pan-Asian American Civil Rights Movement

    Helen Zia

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    Module 5: The Continued Impact and Legacy of Vincent Chin’s Story

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    Japanese Americans

    Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi

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    Module 1: Still Here After Five Generations and Counting

    Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi

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    Module 2: Building Homes and Community in the Shadow of Two Empires (1885-1941)

    Brian Niiya and Kristen Hayashi

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